Current Affairs January 2023

 

The Roman senate declares #1stJan as new year in?

- 153 BC What people were 1st to set New Year's resolutions? - #Babylonians Who created 12 month Julian calendar in 45 BC? - #JuliusCaesar #Iraq is instituted concept of celebrating new year in? - 2000 BC

01 : #GlobalFamilyDay 04 : #WorldBrailleDay 09 : #PravasiBharatiyaDiwas 12 : #NationalYouthDay 15 : #ArmyDay (Ind) 24 : #NationalGirlChildDay 25 : #NationalVotersDay 25 : #NationalTourismDay 26 : #RepublicDay (Ind) 30 : #MartyrsDay 30 : #WorldLeprosyDay

Exactly 175 years ago on this day on 1 January 1848, India's first girls' school was opened by the great social reformer Mahatma #JyotiRaophule and Krantijyoti #Savitribaiphule at Bhidewada in #Pune. Savitribai was taught to read and write by Jyoti Rao Phule.

Remembering #SavitribaiPhule on her birth anniversary day - She became 1st female teacher in India - She regarded as Mother of Indian feminism - Savitribai Phule (along with Fatima) started 1st school for girls - She was one of the 1st to fight against brahminical patriarchy.

#WorldBrailleDay is observed every year across the world on__? - #4thJanuary Who's birth anniversary celebrates as Braille day? - #LouisBraille Braille was born in France in? - 1809 Louis Braille invented #BrailleLanguage which helps to? - blind people to read as well as write

#PravasiBhartiyaDivas celebrating every year on? - #9thJanuary To commemorates a famous leader who returns from #SouthAfrica to #India in 1915? - #MahatmaGandhi This #PBD observing since? - 2003 Theme of #PBD2023? - Diaspora:Reliable Partners for India’s Progress in Amrit Kaal

#WorldHindiDay (#विश्व_हिन्दी_दिवस) is observed every year on? - #10thJanuary This day was to mark the first anniversary of #WorldHindiConference which was held in? - 1975 The first Hindi Conference inaugurated by PM is? - #IndiraGandhi World Hindi Day 1st observed in? - 2006

Tributes to India's 2nd PM #LalBahadurShastri on his death anniversary day. Which slogan is attributed to #LBShastri? - #JaiJawanJaiKisan What's the Lal Bahadur Shastri’s memorial? - #Vijayghat His term as PM of India in? - 1964–1966 He awarded with Bharat Ratna in? - 1966

#NationalYouthDay celebrating every year on___? - #12thJanuary It was 1st observed in? - 1985 Who's b'day celebrated as National Youth Day? - #SwamiVivekananda He founded #RamakrishnaMission in? - 1897 Who gave the name Vivekananda to Swami Vivekananda? - Ajit Singh of Khetri

#IndianArmyDay The #ArmyDay is being observed today across the India. The day marks the taking over of the #IndianArmy by the 1st Indian Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal #KMCariappa, on 15 January 1949 Indian #Army is world's 2nd largest force in the world, after China

Tributes to a true hero #NetajiSubhasChandraBose on his Birth Anniversary - #SubhasChandraBose founded All Indian Forward Bloc in 1939. - He said, “Give me blood, I will give you freedom. His Nick names: - Netaji - Patriot of patriots - Beacon of light of Asia.

India celebrates #NationalGirlChildDay every year on___? - #24thJanuary - This day was established in 2008. - the 24th of January was chosen as National Girl Child Day because Indira Gandhi was appointed as the first women Prime Minister of India on 24-01-1966. #SaveGirlChild

"#G4 COUNTRIES" - Germany - Japan - Brazil - India "#G5 COUNTRIES" - Brazil - India - China - South Africa - Mexico "#G7 COUNTRIES" - France - Germany - Italy - Japan - United Kingdom - United States - Canada - *Russia (Quitted in 2014 from G8)

Ganymede, a satellite of Jupiter, is the largest and most massive of the Solar System's moons. Discovered by Galileo Galilei on January 7, 1610.

#NationalVotersDay is celebrating every year on__? - #25thJanuary This day was 1st observed in 2011 to mark Commission's foundation day. The age for eligible to vote across the the India is 18 years. Theme for this year’s #votersday is ‘Nothing Like Voting, I Vote for Sure.

The first country to grant equal voting rights to all people was New Zealand, in 1893. In most other democracies, women did not win the right to the vote until after the First World War.

The Republic is governed in terms of the Constitution of India which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26th November, 1949 and came into force on 26th January, 1950.

The 'Himachal Pradesh Drone Policy 2022' was approved by the CM Jai Ram Thakur. With this new drone policy, Himachal Pradesh has become the first state in the country to formally acknowledge the public use of drones.

Tribute to #FatherOfTheNation on his death anniversary (#MartyrsDay)? - #MahatmaGandhi Who called 1st time as Mahatma? - R.N Tagore Mahatma means? - Great Soul Who's Political teacher of #Gandhiji? - G.K Gokhale The Gandhi Era is? - 1915 - 1948 His Samadhistal is? - Raj Ghat

(Members of Rajya Sabha are elected by the elected members of the Assemblies of States and Union territories in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote).

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a new federal investment to build and commercialise the world's first photonic-based, fault-tolerant quantum computer.

Summary of #EconomicSurvey 2022-23 India to witness #GDP growth of 6.0% to 6.8% in 2023-24, depending on the trajectory of economic & political developments globally #EconomicSurvey2023 projects a baseline GDP growth of 6.5% in real terms in FY24